The Squirrel Building, Apartment 3, 57 Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QA

The Squirrel Building is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Leicester (LE1 1QA). It has a recorded floor area of 41 m² (around 441 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (August 2018) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 45). Main heating runs on electricity. At 41 m² this is the 4th smallest of 22 units on EPC record in The Squirrel Building, where floor areas span 36–79 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (33 versus a best of 82).

It hasn't traded since November 2005, a hold of 21 years that's notably long for the area. At 41 m² it sits well below the postcode median (61 m² across 78 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£292/sq ft) was about 37.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.